Evaluation of ENU-Induced Gliomas in Rats: NomenclaturE, Immunochemistry, and Malignancy

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 193-201

  Zook, Bernard C ^a   Simmens, Samuel J ^a   Jones, Robert V ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; chemical carcinogen; ethylnitrosourea; transplacental carcinogenisis

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CARCINOGEN TESTING; CELL COMPOSITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033950187     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/019262330002800124     Document Type: Article

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